Writer: Donald Trump is flat out scary

What a wonderful campaign slogan one hears echoing across the land, “Make America Great Again.”

As a nation why not return to the 1950s when black men were still being lynched in the South because of the color of their skin.

Or why not go back to the Great Depression when one in four Americans was unemployed and desperate share-croppers from Georgia were eating dogs, or 100 people a day were living on garbage in Chicago.

Or we can go back to before World War I when women could not vote and they were treated as second rate citizens, or immigrant children as young as six on the Lower East Side in New York were forced to work fourteen hours a day.

Or if the Republicans are feeling really nostalgic, we can go all the way back to antebellum America when 4 million black men and women lived in the unbelievable miseries of slavery.

Or why not go all the way back with the buffoon Trump and the Republicans to Jamestown or Plymouth when Native Americans were killed as recreation and people’s teeth fell out before they were adults, and the average life span was less than forty.

Or we can go forward to build bridges instead of walls and forge a nation where everyone, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, lack of religion, or sexual orientation, is treated as equals. We need fewer nations with nuclear weapons, not more.

Needless to say, I will not be joining one of Laredo’s leading bankers in raising money for Donald Trump, the bigot and bully who may well be the most dangerous politician since Joe McCarthy, Huey Long, Aaron Burr or even Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, or Adolph Hitler.